Category: NFA / Suppressors / Class III

The AAC & H&R (both Remington-owned companies) collaborated a couple of years ago to develop an ultra-light suppressible hunting rifle chambered in .330 AAC BLK and developed the single shot AAC / H&R Handi-Rifle with plastic furniture and a short [Read More…]

The AN-94 was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s to replace the AK-74M. Like all contenders for Russia’s next-generation assault rifle it has faded into obscurity. It features a novel delayed recoil mechanism called “blowback shifted pulse.”. [Read More…]

I live in California (yes, yes, I know) and therefore am not allowed to own silencers here. However, I can own and use them in silencer-friendly states via an NFA trust. TFB previously covered the pros and cons of creating an NFA trust here. In short, yes, it seems to [Read More…]

Short Barrel Shepard was informed of a new ATF opinion letter making the rounds, this time focusing on installing a tube to facilitate the attachment of arm braces. The questions and their answers are found in detail, with the ATF basically holding that the installation [Read More…]

Joe sent us this photo of his AWESOME gun. He wrote … Hey TFB, here is my FULL AUTO SAR-48. As you can see I’ve done some heavy modification to it. I’m running a DSA 11″ barrel on their OSW front end, A Yankee Hill Flash hider and their 7.62 [Read More…]

Forgotten Weapons’ Ian McCollum, partnering with James D. Julia auctions, has gotten the chance to take a look a very rare and historically significant piece: A Winchester 1894 takedown rifle made in 1907… With a registered Maxim silencer: As Ian points [Read More…]

@sweetmarias posted the above photo on Instagram. It shows a security guard in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, rocking a sweet Thompson submachine gun. The only African country to adopt the Tommy gun was Egypt and it the most likely source of the gun in the [Read More…]

(Gawking) Now that my jaw has been picked up from the floor, I cannot help but appreciate the photos of a cut-away M2 .50 Machine Gun. Photographed by RangeHot.com, the M2 in question is a factory spliced receiver used to train armorers of the .50 BMG. I had the [Read More…]

Crye Precision has a website now for the SIX12 revolver bullpup shotgun. It is six12.com. I love their slogan: “Opening doors, meeting new people” You can register for updates for the date the shotgun will be available. They also have a signup sheet for [Read More…]

I found these images in a Facebook group but the person who posted them did not know their origins and was trying to find more information. Looking at the images below it looks like the circular button may be a safety. I think you hold it like a knife handle and your [Read More…]

Tim sent us some very interesting photos he took of Indian police earlier this year. Time writes … A series of images taken during the Vibrant Gujarat 2015 exposition in Ahmedabad, India, in January 2015. The Indian police (be they state, local, or federal) were [Read More…]

SilencerCo is now selling the creation of NFA Trusts for just $129. A trust allows all trustees (which could be family members) to use NFA items owned by the trust. It also means that trust-held NFA items don’t need to be transferred to an heir after the owners [Read More…]

Okay. So this has made some rounds on the interwebz and is generating sufficient drama. If you haven’t heard, supposedly Jesse James (formerly of Monster Garage) has constructed a suppressor with some intense claims: https://www.jjfu.com/suppressors [Read More…]

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and Colt Canada have developed a new Assault Rifle for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). It does not have a name but the weapon looks like something out of a Sci Fi film. The DRDC is Canada’s version of DARPA. They are [Read More…]

This was one of a number of photos published on Facebook. As far as I can tell, they show a self-defence militia training in Zhydachiv, a city in Western Ukraine not far from the Polish border. The gun looks to be an H&K MP5 or clone and is fully automatic. [Read More…]

Somehow a brand new product has “archival footage; the SALVO-12 shotgun suppressor is now compatible with Saiga shotguns. Tongue in cheek (which I found hilarious) footage aside, the core message is that SilencerCo has released the Saiga Choke Mount Adapter. It [Read More…]

Here is a video of a catastrophic failure of a Huntertown Kestrel 5.56 Suppressor. And here is the aftermath. Taking a look at Huntertown’s website I am curious if this is covered under their warranty. There is no mention of full auto fire. There is [Read More…]

The U.S. Armed Forces have alot of guns. Let me correct myself, the military has A TON of guns. Where are all these kept and stored though? In armories of course. But these mysterious enclaves filled to the brim with boy toys must be an absolute joy to even step inside [Read More…]

The Walther MPL is a German made 9mm submachinegun, but why then is it so obscure? And most importantly, how does it shoot? The Walther MP SMGs do not appear much in media, and it is rare to see one out in the wild. This makes one wonder; does the gun suffer from a deficiency […] Read [Read More…]

Royal Arms was established in 1984 to manufacture specialized equipment for breaching, hostage rescue and CQB. They are known as being the original inventor (and oldest manufacturer) of “Breaching Stand-Off Device”, “12 Gauge Breaching Shotgun” [Read More…]

FNH had their elusive SCAR PDW on display at SHOT Show 2015. The PDW is based off of a SCAR 16S. However the upper receiver is slightly different. SCAR uppers usually have three holes at the front behind the sling loop. That is not the case here. As you can see there [Read More…]

My last day at SHOT I finally got to stop by one of my last vendors, Gemtech. Even near the end of the show, their huge booth was still packed with hardly any room to spare. The new products that were being showcased at SHOT include The Arrow (and the Arrow’s [Read More…]

My friend Adolfo moved to England a while back, leaving all of his guns here to waste away. Well, he decided to come back and visit and he volunteered to sacrifice a Century Polish Tantal in the name of scientific testing. I converted the gun to full-auto, and that was [Read More…]

Griffin Armament showed the new Revolution suppressors at the SHOT Show. The suppressors are available for both 9mm and .45 ACP calibers. These suppressors are adjustable length cans. The longer it is, the more noise attenuation it offers. For example, in the 9mm, the [Read More…]

I found Recover and they have some really cool products coming out this year. First up they have a pistol-carbine conversion kit similar to the other pistol conversion kits like the Roni or SIG ACP. However the Recover Morphy BCZ has better features than the others. [Read More…]